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englebart wrote: This is known as "Mouse Capture". Native Windows and dotNET apis are available.
That all being said, resizing beyond the borders is not very intuitive. It seems like you are breaking a rule or something.
I know that in principle, although I had forgotten the technical term for it, since I try to stay away from UI design, because it is neither my forte nor fun for me. When possible, I'll leave that to others who are more skilled than am I.
In any case, I don't recall noticing other mouse capture events that persisted beyond the border of the window in which they commenced, and I agree that the behaviour is counter-intuitive.
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Double-clicking the hairline should be enough 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Double-clicking the hairline should be enough
That works in many contexts, and I use it frequently, though I can't remember whether I remembered to try it in the Visual Studio/MSBuild macros window.
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It's something I often forgot to add when using a DGV or listview, but it is a nice feature to have 
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Frustratingly I suspect it is limited to a little less that 2147483647 pixels though....
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Just wait until your app contains a list view, and you record in the registry the last column sizes. The fun begins when you forget to verify that the registry values actually exist when you retrieve them, and you set your list view column widths to rather large 32-bit random values. Windows is perfectly happy to do it, and tell your drawing code to draw a cell that is 16 pixels tall and 8 parsecs long.
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Only eight parsecs? 
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Well... It's not the Kessel run!
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Forogar wrote: Well... It's not the Kessel run
I had to look that one up. I at least had a clue about the size of a parsec. It took a bit of noodling for me to grok that Solo was bragging about covering the distance "in only 12 parsecs." Once I read about them being unable to travel in straight lines, that part made sense, and I suspect the same holds for Warp drive.
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David A. Gray wrote: Once I read about them being unable to travel in straight lines
They made a point of addressing that in the movie Solo[^].
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Okay, so I rounded off a little.
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Au contraire! This little exchange has been both enlightening and fun. Moreover, if you can cover the distance in only 8, you've bested Han Solo by a full third.
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This has been part of Windows since at least 3.1 (pre-32 bit). I'm not surprised you didn't know about this as I have to constantly teach this trick to my users (and developers).
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In general terms, I know that. I've used Windows since almost day 1, and I don't recall ever seeing a drag work when the mouse pointer moves outside the boundaries of the windows that has the focus. That's good to know, so long is it doesn't make the thing 3 parsecs wide.
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foo.TryGetValue("bar", out object value);
var somestr = value.ToString();
Sort of defeats the purpose of the try when foo doesn't have the key "bar" or even if it does, the value might be null.
If I show this to the person who wrote it, do you think they'll suggest a try-catch block to not break the rest of the code? 
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Brilliant! Promote this programmer to management so they don't write code that breaks the system with random null reference exceptions.
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At least he tried 
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A classic case of "when a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". They understood that they needed to use TryGetValue() but not how to use it.
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Prolog has the notion of "fail" and handles this gracefully (Visual Prolog in the example below):
facts % key_value lookup table
key_value : (string Key, integer Value).
predicates
tryGetValue : (string Key) -> integer Value determ.
clauses
tryGetValue(K) = V :-
key_value(K, V), % FAILs here if undefined key_value/2
!.
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Ah, but there is no fail without try.
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They were probably so thrilled with using inline type declaration they thought their job that day was done
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var somestr = foo.TryGetValue("bar", out var value) ? value?.ToString() : null;
Would that be better?! 
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Pulled the hard disk from a Ubuntu system, swapped it into a different laptop. Very different configuration; about the only thing they have in common is a manufacturer's badge and a QWERTY keyboard.
The first boot took a little longer than usual, but it came up seamlessly.
Try that with Windows!
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A long time ago I did something similar on a Win 95 (or was it 98) machine. Whole new motherboard, processor, etc. When it booted up I saw some messages about updating various drivers, which it did fairly seamlessly. I don't remember for certain, but I think it did ask to be rebooted, but after that it came up just fine...
No idea what Windows does now though...
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I did it recently: changed the MB, Processor, and RAM. Heck, I went from a E6700 to an i5 and a totally different MB and BIOS manufacturer.
Turned on the power and it booted fine - possibly a little slowly but not much off the original boot time.
Only hassle was the "Windows Activation Licence" which - rightly - decided it was different hardware and I needed to reactivate.
That would have gone smoothly if I had less than three monitors, or the remote desktop software MS technical use could see more than just the middle one. Or if the taskbar had been on that monitor, I guess that would have been handy. Of course, if the "activation failure" detector hadn't deliberately disabled any changes to the desktop at all that would have helped. 
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